Didn't this show air in the 80's on NBC before it ended up resurrected on PBS????
It had the same intro music but different lyrics, and no annoying puppet things running around. It had 2 kid hosts. A boy and girl that sat in chairs with kidsongs written across their sweatshirts.
Anyone else remember this show but me??!!!
It did though it was in syndication.
shareI certainly remember this show befoe the mid 1990's. It used to occasionally air on the Disney Channel in the weekday morning kids show Music Box (the Disney Channel was different, and far more structured than what it is today). While the series that came along later featured the kids coming to an actual functioning TV studio employed by real living adult staff, and saying "Can we use the studio, please don't you say no!" the original series featured an introduction with the kids approaching an abandoned television studio unaware of anything behind the story of the place and then going to explore it. After having the chance to explore it all over they noticed that it was deserted and began converting it into a functioning TV show project which they would run as the Kidsongs TV show. This series was different from the more recent one. It featured no adults (except as extras in music videos) or Biggles, and as mentioned here the two hosts sat in chairs while addressing the viewers instead of at what looked like a news desk like in the alternate series. A boy director sat across the cameras from them and signaled cues to everyone whereas later this was done by a female crew member standing next to the rolling cameras. You know some of the song videos from the original show even ended up showing on the new one too. Mr. Policeman for instance was made in this original and having watched the new one from time to time I saw it on that as well. Although that's the only song I can think of off-hand right now that was featured in both I have a feeling there were others. Anyway I liked the original series better as it had a much more complex and clever plot. When someone goes out on their own to begin something the world has never seen, or discover a new frontier of some kind, that represents what ultimately makes the universe tick and life worth living. Kids can be especially striking in doing this as they have certain philosophy and creative innovation that grows out of one as he or she gets older. Kids music videos are less than one hundredth as common as adults music videos and the thought of kids banding together and proving such resourcefulness of their own (even if they do use available resources already in existence such as an abandoned facility) in order to make their place in the world stand out to just as great an extent is so radical compared to the thought of them going to a real working TV studio and in one verbal sentence begging the staff to let them use it for their purpose and project. Bring back the greater series NOW!
shareI don't understand why they had to add adults to the series and made the hosts look like they were newscasters.
shareThank you so much! It's nice to know that someone else remembers the show I do.
I remember that my favorite song was their cover of that oldie song "Sea Cruise".
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